In today's episode Bruce takes a look at the solo graphic novel choose your adventure game Captive published by Van Ryder Game. Make your character and set out to save your daughter from her captors while navigating unexpected and interesting story twists that had Bruce come back to the table multiple times. In addition, there is a insightful interview withe the President of Van Ryder Games, AJ Porfirio. During the interview they talk about the history of Van Ryder Games, what brought AJ back into the hobby and ultimately to the industry, Captive, the other 4 books of the season 1 of the Graphic Novel Adventure (GNA) series, the upcoming Kickstarter for Season 2 of GNA which goes live on March 5, 2019 at 10 am, and other upcoming games which you may enjoy!

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In today's episode, I'm taking a look at the game, captive which is put out by van rider games. It is a graphic novel adventure based game. Yes. That's right. Graphic novel adventure game. Stay tuned for that. And then for an interview with the president of van rider games. Welcome to board game impact my name is Bruce Brown and I'm your host now. What board game impact is for those of you who are new, it's a podcast as well as other media outlets that we also have a Facebook YouTube, and Instagram in which I bring my educational background. I'm getting my PHD in human resource development, which is to go out there and help organizations and individuals make a positive impact on the world. And combine that with my passion for board games, and all with the hope of helping you the listener make educated decisions for the betterment of your gaming group and your experience within the hobby now today. I've got a very interesting episode for you in that we're going to be looking at the game, captive which is put out by van rider games, extremely unique compared to many other games you've ever experienced in your life. Now say this because the game doesn't have a box the game is a book and it's a graphic novel adventure book, and we're going to be taking a look quickly. It will my experience has been. Playing through this game played through it several times now. And then also stay tuned for the latter half of this episode the majority of this episode which is going to be a conversation about this, and the other games in its series with myself and the president of van writer games. So I've already said, but unlike many other games captive is not a box. It is a book. It's a literal graphic adventure book. And when you open it up, it's got very nice art with different panels, and quote, bubbles and things like that. And just as a heads up, I will be avoiding going into too much detail about the contents of it because this is a game where since adventure based, there are spoilers. I'm trying to seek to have this be spoiler free. So that way you can really unlock these things for yourself. If it's something you sound of interest,

Ready to put your medieval strategies to the test? Think your archers can take on the powerful knights and lancers? In today's review episode Bruce looks into the 2 or 4 abstract medieval strategy game War Chest designed by Trevor Benjamin and David Thompson, published by Alderac Entertainment Group (AEG).

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Today. I'm looking into the two or four player abstract medieval strategy game, war-chest published by Audrey entertainment group, AG, and designed by Trevor Benjamin and David Thomson. My name is Bruce Brown and this is board game impact a podcast or a look into board games and related topics. So that way, you can know the impact that they may have for your gaming group, you can find me on board game geek as Bruce Brown and on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and patriot as board game impact so war-chest is a game that I actually learned about and got to play for the first time when I attended board game, geek, convention back in November of two thousand eighteen now how I found out about is kind of fascinating actually, so on. What's called the board game geek, hotness? Or geek, buzz, the geek buzz, essentially, what that is. When you check in for board game geek, you get this little name badge. And then on the back of it, you've got a little card, and it's got your own personal code. They are in on these computers that they put up in the lobby. Once you type in your code you can click the games that you've liked so far at the convention from all that they aggregate that data out, and they create. Create what's called essentially, this hotness list of the top one hundred games. Now, of course, there's over six thousand games available to play at the convention, but these are just someone so you can like narrow down your choices on what you want to choose, how this plays in with war-chest is was number one for the first three days of the convention now, should note that the first day of the convention for November twenty eight teen they did not have up the projector screens. There's just too much going on, on Italy. And it makes sense so days two and three both had war-chest number one. So that was the first sign that it's like I need to check this out. Well luckily in the dealer hall, one of the two dealer halls that they had AG was there and they did have a setup of or just because it's a more recent game. That's come out came out in two thousand eighteen so I spent about twenty minutes with one of the demos and random gentlemen. That I just met right there. And we learned how to play the basics of how works works out and there was a. A lot more depth that I wanted to explore and another buddy of mine who didn't get the demo it I was like you know what we're going to get our hands on one of these, and we're going to try this, so we kept going in and out of the library over the next day and a half. And eventually, it was there, and that was on the last full night of the convention. And so we sat down we played it and we, honestly played it three times in a row and you're probably curious like what's going on in this game? They played three times in a row. So an overview, it's two or four player game. So it's university other person or you create a team of two people against the team another team of two people. So each side, whether it's the two player or the four player will have their own unique set of units that come from a total sixteen units that a...

Happy New Year's to all board gamers! To wrap up the year Bruce shares some insightful suggestions of New Year's Resolutions you can set to maximize your enjoyment of the board game hobby for 2019. More importantly Bruce goes into the research behind successful resolutions and offers suggestions to make your goals a reality for an awesome 2019!

I hope you enjoyed this interview episode.

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In today's episode of board game impact, I'm looking into board. Game related New Year's resolutions. You're listening to board game impact podcast. We're looking board related topics that way, you can know the impact that they may have for your gaming group. My name is Bruce Brown, and I'm your host and outside of this channel leadership educator. And I'm working on my PHD in human resource development with the goal of helping people and organizations unlock their potential. I pull in this background in this research, focus to help build this content for your benefit. You can connect with me on board game geek, as Bruce Brown on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and patriotic as board game impact so many families, and many people have some different hallmark things that they do around this time of year. So if you're listening to this before New Year's, or after new years, a lot of this can still get pulled in to actually help enhance this time of the year or to set you off on the right foot, potentially. And so that's why I wanted to put this content out there because this is such a important time for many people around the world, specifically for many different areas around the. World, people have different traditions that they do to metaphorically start the year off on the right foot. Some examples may include a champagne toast knit midnight. I know that my brother and sister in law. Do this one where every year, they go out and get the newest release of their favorite champagne, and they always, always, always make sure to have a champagne toast. And they actually saved that bottle and the cork from year to year as a little memento of all the things that they've done from the past year. But then also to save that as a memory now, I'm living in the south and for many people around here, actually having black eyed peas on New Year's day sometimes with some corn bread is deemed as giving. Good luck for the year ahead, some different traditions around the world, burning paper stuff scarecrows in Ecuador or burning effigy and Panama in Spain. It's good luck to eat exactly twelve grapes. Not eleven thirteen or more or less. Exactly twelve grapes. There's this really cool thing in. Olivia where people make what they call a sweet coin which is similar to a New Orleans, king cake, from Louisiana for mardi gras for, for the mardi gras cake. The king cake, what they do is they hide this little plastic baby in it. And if you get this, that slice, it's deemed bring, you good luck as well as you have to provide the cake for the next year, a sweet coin in Bolivia, same idea, minus the baby ad in money coins. And if you get a slice that has a coin in it, then that's going to bring you good luck and you have good fortune for the year ahead, some curious, if there's anything that you're doing to start the year off on the right foot or things you've done the past that seem to make a difference,

Have you ever played collectable card games like Magic the Gathering, or Are you looking for a new card game to play against others? Check out this episode where  Bruce takes a look at the brand new, procedurally generated card game KeyForge: Call of the Archons made by Richard Garfield and published by Fantasy Flight Games. KeyForge has a lot of new and unique aspects that you will discover in this episode that set it in a whole new league of games while keeping the game easy to understand and is full of fun exploration for the players.

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Hello and welcome to board game impact a podcast where look into board games and related topics. So that way you can know the impact that they may have fear gaming group. Today. I'm looking into key Ford's call the are cons designed by Richard Garfield and published by fantasy flight games. My name is Bruce Brown and you can find me on board game geek, as Bruce Brown as well as on Facebook, Instagram Twitter patriotic as board game impact. So today, I'm going to give be giving you look at key Ford's call the Arcand from here on out and it's going to refer to it as key forwards key forge a game designed by Richard Garfield which some of you may be familiar with that name from one of our earlier episodes. When we talk to Erin dean about her book for the love of board games in which she interviewed Richard Garfield Richard Garfield is the one of the regional designers of magic the gathering and now several years later came out with eight new card game. And that card game is called key forge- so key is a card game in which each player has a deck of thirty six cards that are procedurally generated, I'll get into what all that means here in a minute, but they play with their deck, and they're going to be playing creatures artifacts and some other unique abilities or actions. And I. Homes and upgrade cards from their hand onto creatures in order to forge what are called keys keys are constructed by collecting amber during your turn. And if at the start of your turn you have six amber, then you get you must forge a key. And if you Ford's three keys you win the game. But you can only four Domecq some of one during that initial part of your turn. Now, how do you do all this? So what's kind of cool is that the game of key forge- the world? If key for realms of keyboard is divided among seven houses, an every single deck has three different houses in it. And each of those houses has exactly twelve cards in the deck. So, you know that a third of the deck is going to be one house third another house third, the third house. But at the start of your turn you choose a house that is represented in your deck. And what's fascinating is that is the only house as creatures everything else. Cards from that house. The only things that you can play or fight with excetera during your turn making the other two thirds of your deck, not usable. Now it's kind of fascinating. Or there are some synergies that you can do to use different neighboring creatures and things which are fascinating.

Do you have what it takes to prove your worth at King Arthur's Round Table? In today's Impact Review Bruce takes a look at Merlin, a game designed by Stefan Feld and Michael Rieneck and published by Queen Games. Merlin is a point-salad style eurogame built around the mechanic of a rondel that incorporates a roll and move process that can be heavily altered through die result manipulation through different aspects of the game. All of which you do to earn the most points and prove you are worthy to succeed Arthur as King!

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What's your board game story? In today's episode Bruce interviews Erin Dean, the author of "For the Love of Board Games - a Book for Board Gamers and the Producer/Director/Editor of the YouTube documentary "The Board Game Boom." Erin talks with Bruce about her experience interviewing more than 50 board game designers about the stories behind their designs, their introduction to gaming, and so much more. This unique perspective reveals impactful and lasting stories for the betterment of the board game community.

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Facebook: For the Love of Board Games Book Page & Podcast Page

Order a copy of Erin's book on Kickstarter: "For the Love of Board Games - a Book for Board Gamers

Watch the documentary: "The Board Game Boom"

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Welcome to board game impact podcast where we look into board card dice and other game related topics of interest. So that way, you can know their potential impact for when they hit the table for your gaming group today, I'm joined by special guest who has interviewed more than fifty board game designers for her book further. Love of games a book for board gamers. Welcome back to another episode of board game impact. My name is Bruce Brown and he can find me on board game geek as Bruce Brown, and you can also find me on all the social media sites is board game impact today. We have a very special guest joining us for the show, can you? Please introduce yourself and tell the listeners had to connect with your work. Yes. My name is Aaron dean on the author of four. The love of board games a book for board gamers, which is now on Kickstarter to connect with me, you can reach out to me on Facebook by just searching my name, Aaron dean and the best way to kind of stay updated with my work is the joy in our Facebook groups for the love of board game stash book, and for the love of board games dash podcast. And then we also have a website under that same name for the love of board games dot com. Awesome. So Erin, you've got this amazing book coming out. You've also made a video documentary on YouTube, that is called the board game, boom that came out in two thousand seventeen so can you please tell our listeners more about your content, and inspired? You create these awesome things. So, basically, the main thing that has been inspired me with these projects is basically. I am just a huge board gamer these both the documentary, I created and the book, I've written are huge passion. Projects for me. I find it fun to talk about board games because I'm a gamer myself, I play board games all the time. I run a weekly board game night with some Saint Louis natives and yeah, it's just been great. And it's been really awesome to connect with some really cool people in the industry, fantastic. So in your book, can you tell the listeners about the content of the book because I think it's pretty unique. Yeah. So this book interviews over. Fifty board.

Once upon a time (2018) the designer Tim Eisner partnered with Druid City Games to publish the game The Grimm Forest and today we get to now enjoy interacting though the stories inspired by Grimm's Fairy Tales as a board game. In today's episode Bruce does an overview and impact review of The Grimm Forest in an effort to assist you in learning about the game so that way you can know what to expect for your gaming group.

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What adventure do your choose? In today's episode Bruce does an impact review for the 2018 game Choose Your Own Adventure: House of Danger by Prospero Hall and published by Z-Man Games. This uniquely cooperative adventure game is based on the hit 'Choose Your Own Adventure' books published from 1979-1998 by R. A.. Mongomery. To learn more about this game please click the link. If you enjoyed today's episode please subscribe, and tell your friends.

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In today's episode Bruce is joined by special guest Forrest with Two Bats Gaming and they talk about how Two Bats Gaming went through declassified training documents from the CIA and re-created a board game made by David Clopper called "Collection" which was used to train US intelligence employees. In addition, Bruce and Forrest talk about learning that can occur thanks to games, games and mental health, and more.

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Check out the Freedom of Information Act CIA Files.

If you want to experience this very unique game purchase a copy of Collection from Print & Play Games.

Thanks for listening, and go make a positive difference in the world!

In this [BONUS] episode, Bruce takes a look at Modern Art published by CMON games in 2016 and designed by Reiner Knizia. Modern Art has had many versions since it it first came out in 1992 but the core elements have remained the same. Bruce will talk about several of these versions, the mechanics, the experiences that Modern Art has facilitated for gaming groups, and more.

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